CNN: Clerk Raised Alarms on Foley

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CNN adds to ABC’s reporting on former House Clerk Jeff Trandahl’s testimony before the House ethics committee today:

Former House Clerk Jeff Trandahl repeatedly raised red flags about former Rep. Mark Foley years before GOP leaders said they knew about Foley’s inappropriate conduct with pages, sources said….

Two sources close to Trandahl told CNN that he had been monitoring Foley’s interaction with pages after being told of troubling behavior by the congressman in the House cloakroom and elsewhere. Trandahl took his concerns to Kirk Fordham, Foley’s former chief of staff, many times, the sources said.

So Trandahl has corroborated a key point of Kirk Fordham’s testimony. But did he also tell the committee, like Fordham did, that Speaker Hastert’s chief of staff interceded way back in 2003 to warn Foley about his advances?

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